rustling

The other rustling is some outside gang, I 'm sure.

The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

Down-stairs she met Mrs. William, splendid in rustling black silk, her broad, rubicund face smiling, overflowing with apologies and welcomes, which Joscelyn cut short coldly.

Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

Lapland snow-birds, in rustling bunches, rose up from almost under our horses 'hoofs.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

"You mean that you were collecting moths?" said Archie dubiously, as he recalled the rustling sounds he had heard below the veranda that night.

Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris George Manville Fenn 1870

"I run down to see what it was," he said, referring to the rustling in the woods, "and see a 300 lb. bear with a bird feeder in his mouth.

Lessons for Squirrels Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

Every member of the outfit assisted in "rustling" the camp and the food.

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

As they cantered across the prairie, on which the snow was like dry sand and only about an inch deep, they could see bands of their cattle here and there pawing the snow off the grass, or "rustling" for their fodder, as the cowmen call it.

Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur Edward C. Taylor

There were jets of lurid red light in some places, which disappeared and came again; while there being a dead calm after the storm, the adventurers heard a kind of rustling sound in the distance, faint and almost imperceptible, and yet believed to be the rush of the air in the sphere of the phenomenon.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various

The "rustling" of cattle was very common in Arizona in these days.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

They get few calves, are lazy, and have not the "rustling" spirit.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson